Tap-Translate is a new app (or really, a bookmarklet posing as an app) that translates words in foreign languages right from your phone’s browser. No exiting the app, no switching, no fuss. That means whenever you stumble upon something you don’t understand you just click on the bookmark, tap on the questionable word and let it translate.
A new feature built into Google Translate for Android, Conversation Mode is a little rough around the edges, but it’s basically your own personal Babel Fish. It does what Wordlens does, but in real-time speech, translating English and Spanish.
Word Lens, an app that translates English text to and from Spanish on the fly, is a reminder of how incredibly powerful apps can be. But how’s it really work? It ain’t perfect, but it’s still pretty damn amazing.
Our first reaction on seeing this video of an app that translates printed words using your iPhone’s camera? Fake! But then we downloaded the app itself and were blown away – it actually works!
Google Goggles – the fun-to-say visual search app – now includes a point-and-click translation tool that’ll take a lot of the guesswork out of your next overseas holiday. It’s like having a little multilinguist living in your phone.
The average translation system uses a billion words to model a language. Google’s uses a few hundred billion English words. Apparently, the way to do translation – crunching millions of passages and human translations – is up Google’s alley. Who knew? [NYT]
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Today, YouTube is rolling out automatic captioning for all videos uploaded to the service, using Google’s speech recognition service. You can see a demo in the video above.
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Today in Redmond, Microsoft Research demoed the Translating Telephone. It does exactly what it says it does, and as you can see – well, hear – from this video, it was awesome.
